Day in photos: Jan. 23, 2013

Serena Williams celebrates a point during what would turn out to be a quarterfinal loss to Sloane Stephens at the Australian Open.

AP

With help from some slightly shorter colleagues, a model presents a creation by French designer Jean Paul Gaultier Spring-Summer 2013 show in Paris.

Reuters

A miner showers after his shift in Hungary’s last remaining deep-cast coal mine at Markushegy. The state won EU approval for a $191M grant to shut down the mine.

Reuters

Chicago fire department Lieutenant Charley De Jesus steps carefully around an ice-covered warehouse that caught fire Tuesday night in Chicago. The blaze brought a third of the city’s firefighters to the scene.

Reuters

Britain’s Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall speaks to (curiouisly barricaded) schoolchildren during a visit to St Mary’s School in London.

Reuters

Huskies train in the forests near Feshiebridge, Scotland, ahead of the Siberian Husky Club Aviemore Sled Dog Rally at Loch Morlich, the biggest event in the British sled dog racing calendar.

Palestinian women and children as the funeral procession of Lubna Hanash passes in Bethlehem. Hanash, a 21-year-old Palestinian woman, was shot by Israeli soldiers near Hebron, Palestinian medics said.

Reuters

An Orthodox priest lays a blessing on an arsenal about to be handed out to new Belarussian recruits at a military swearing-in ceremony in Minsk.

Reuters

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pounds her fists while responding to questioning on the September attacks in Benghazi, Libya, at a Capitol Hill hearing.